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Jeremy Lui

This is in response to Jason Phillips’s recent letter to the Times Record about wanting cameras on our intersections to protect our college students from “dangerous driving behavior.” His numbers comparing 32 deaths in Sebastian County over a five-year period with 7,770 nationally for one year points to no urgency. But he asks us to contact our officials. So let’s get serious about helping our community. Perhaps crossing guards could assist these scholars across the road so as not to disrupt their texting. This university already treats them like children, dressing them like lions and displaying them on billboards patronizing the rest of us to “join their pride.” We can all take comfort that these future leaders are the best and brightest among us. What is truly frightening is how many Americans have developed a panic reaction and demand new laws every time something goes wrong. Ultimately, this gives officials further authority to shove around and extort our citizens. We have removed God from the foundation of our laws and understanding, leaving us with just plain “dangerous behavior.”